"We also regard the three early tribes as an evolution of the Primordial World's foundational bloodlines, precisely because they influenced every living creature of the later Primordial World eras."
"So beasts would instinctively evolve toward Qilin, birds would instinctively evolve toward Phoenix, and scaled creatures would instinctively evolve toward the Dragon Tribe."
"One central focus of the future Demon Tribe must be to extend the possibilities of bloodline use, spreading the ability to self-regulate even to bloodlines below those of innate divine beings."
Standing on the raised platform, Shewan announced that goal under gazes so astonished that even Xu Tong was taken aback.
Innate divine beings.
The very pinnacle of the Primordial World's bloodlines.
On the surface, their only distinction seemed to be their status as the Heavenly Dao's favorites.
In reality, however, the affinity between early innate divine beings and spiritual energy was beyond anything ordinary creatures could imagine!
For ordinary creatures, their relationship with spiritual energy could be described as absorbing and using it.
Simply put, their bodies were wooden buckets, and spiritual energy was water.
Cultivation, then, was the process of collecting spiritual energy from the air into those buckets.
But innate divine beings were different.
They were ice!
An enormous block of ice formed entirely from spiritual energy!
As soon as ordinary pre-Heaven spiritual energy approached them, it would involuntarily be influenced by their aura.
It would become part of the ice as well!
Simply put, ordinary cultivators and spiritual energy repelled each other to some extent.
The greater their affinity for spiritual energy, the less it repelled them, and the faster they could cultivate.
But some cultivators were anything but ordinary!
Early innate divine beings, for instance, were conglomerations of spiritual energy even purer than pre-Heaven spiritual energy itself!
However, as the Primordial World's era